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Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Dreamland
Sucked
Drifting
Shore
Swim
Felt
Back
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Undertow

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